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The ASX closed lower on Friday, as banking giant CBA retreated and technology stocks fell.

ASX dips as CBA retreats; miners get China boost

The Australian sharemarket lost ground on Friday as banking giant CBA fell from a historic high and the technology sector declined.

  • Staff reporter

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Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2002.

Bromance over: Musk says Trump should be impeached in social media brawl

The US president suggested the Tesla chief is suffering “Trump derangement syndrome”. The tech billionaire said that “without me, Trump would have lost”.

  • Michael Koziol
Elon Musk in the Oval Office last week.

The staggering amount of money Elon Musk lost in one day as Trump feud boils over

Minute by minute, post by post, Elon Musk’s very public, extremely online feud with President Donald Trump sliced into his vaunted status as the world’s richest person.

  • Dylan Sloan and Tom Maloney
Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

In this fragile union of colossal egos, it was always going to end in tears

It is not surprising Donald Trump and former “first buddy” Elon Musk would finish their relationship in a flame-throwing blaze, given both missed out on genes that carried understatement or restraint.

  • Elizabeth Knight
US President Donald Trump with Elon Musk outside the White House in March.

Musk tests his political clout now he’s no longer Trump’s ‘first buddy’

Less than 100 hours after leaving the Trump administration, Elon Musk is out to muzzle the president’s top domestic priority. This could get ugly.

  • Michael Koziol
Elon Musk sported a slight bruised eye which he said resulted from a play-fight with his young son, who is named X.

A black eye and a gold key: Musk’s subdued farewell from Trump’s White House

If Musk’s headline-grabbing stint in the Trump administration straddled ecstatic highs and horrific lows, his farewell was more like a Buddhist on Valium.

  • Michael Koziol
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Electric vehicles at Port Melbourne.

The range of EVs is surging, but certain fears are holding back sales

The absence of a second-hand market for electric vehicles is contributing to doubts consumers have over the long-term viability of these cars.

  • Frances Howe
Arriving with an ambition to cut $US2 trillion ($3.1 trillion) from the US federal government, Elon Musk is now leaving having reached just 8.75 per cent of his target.

Elon Musk is the textbook example of a workplace ‘seagull’

You’re never going to stop men like Musk from swooping in on your work, but you can at least make the aftermath a little bit easier to clean up.

  • Tim Duggan
An electric automobile charging during a tour from Seattle to Mount Rainier in 1919.

Electric cars died a century ago. Could that happen again?

Battery-operated vehicles were a mainstay on American roads - until politicians put their thumbs on the scale, and came down on the side of the oil industry, and petrol-powered cars.

  • Ivan Penn
The discounting in China’s electric car market raises an interesting question. Can an industry be too successful?

Could China’s electric carmakers bring on another Evergrande moment?

China’s electric vehicle industry is starting to look a lot like a re-run of the property sector’s disaster that has weighed down its economy for more than four years.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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